This update is where I have managed to get all the pieces together to form a complete Infrastructure as Code pipeline for the self-service firewall rules on the Cisco ASA. The Go firewall project incorporates the ASA API Terraform project and a GitLab pipeline. The flow of the application in the current prototype is as […]
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This current version will use the Go web application to create a Cisco ASA firewall rule on the OUTSIDE interface to permit traffic to my DMZ server on port 8000. The firewall rule on the ASA will be created without any Cisco ASA CLI commands used. Currently, it is a manual process to have any
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This post will be an overview of the project progress for Firewall Rule Self-Service portal that I am creating with Go.The code can be found as release v0.02 in my GitHub The project is to allow non-technical users to create a firewall rule in Terraform. Currently, the project has a single main page, which is
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This post will give a basic Go main.go file that can connect to a database and perform the basic CRUD operations.I have created a test PostgreSQL database to demonstrate this. I have created a new main.go file and will initiate the go mod file with the below Basic Steps The basic skeleton of the programme
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As part of the ASA API Terraform Project, in this post I will be demonstrating the creation of ACLs using objects, object groups and standard IP addressing. Lab I’m going to set up a simple ASA lab using the previous post from the project. Creating Objects with Terraform I have created a network object and
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Creating GitLab Project I have started this off by creating a new in GitLab. As I have previously setup my SSH key for GitLab I will just clone the repo and I’ll be able to push changes that way. My lab is up and running GNS3, I just ensure that I can ping and SSH
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ASA Management Configuration I have created a lab for an ASA using a single ASA to begin with. It’s a basic walkthrough to setup the ASA and the API. Download and Transfer API Installer to ASA The ASA API can be found here. I am running ASA 9.9, and I have used the file asa-restapi-7161-lfbff-k8.SPA.
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Example In my previous posts in this project, I have explained how to setup NetBox and a couple of the Ansible collection features. In this post, I want to demonstrate what is possible using this approach. I have created multiple Ansible roles with different vars files containing a lot of configuration parameters.The repo for this
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Git Branches The purpose of this NetBox Ansible project is to fix the problems I have encountered with multiple changes being pushed to NetBox by different engineers and then having multiple changes being made to the network devices with very little change control. Now that Ansible is able to make changes to my NetBox test,
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Removing Configuration for Individual Components In the previous post, I demonstrated an example of a custom field. Inside the task, there was a state parameter. This parameter tells NetBox whether to create or delete it.Leaving the state hard set inside the task means all custom tags (as in that example) will either be present, or
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